Integrating, Engaging, Creating and Differentiating Curriculum for Gifted LEarners
The Integrated Curriculum Model provides exciting opportunities for enrichment, acceleration, and differentiation. Discover the secrets to selecting a topic, uncovering hidden resources, combining best instructional practice with meaningful curriculum, and ways of setting the stage for learning. Learn how this model is used in two different school settings, The Knox School of Santa Barbara and Nasri Academy for Gifted Children.
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Worshops are mean for skill development. NOTES:
Theory/Structure
Slide 1. Make sure, if students in multi-age classroom, make sure you are vertically aligning curriculum.
Be thinking about evaluation types. Standardized assessments? What does true learner self-assessment look like? WHat are the goals?
DEPTH AND COMPLEXITY
Slide 2:Standards:
Vertical alignment of standards
(Email main presenter (Dr. Ellien Honeck) about aligning ELA literacy and math alignment of standards)
SLIDE 3: ASSUMPTIONS...
Student interest - what knowledge are they coming in with? DOn't reteach it.
What can integrated curriculum CAN do... communicate to parents (that students understand what is being taught at grade level... they need more)
SLIDE 4 ORGANIZATION ELEMENTS:
If they don't walk away understanding pieces, then it was NOT a successful unit.
If you are spending 12 weeks on a topic, do not repeat that in a year.
Focus Questions.... Teacher created vs Student Created
SLIDE 5: Create Essential Questions:
What do student NEED to understand?
SLIDE 6: Sample Questions "Evidence"
In an integrated unit, select 3-5 questions (NOT ALL OF THEM)
These are big picture concept questions
SLIDE 7: Choose a Unit:
Topics that NEED to to taught in grade level
SLIDE 8:Research
Have strong background knowledge in the topic.. not necessarily as expert
Pre-assessment important.. provides opportunities of make sure their understanding is accurate and what to focus on and not need to cover
SLIDE 9: Setting Up the Unit
Social Emotional considerations
Goals need to cover essential understandings
SLIDE 10: Shaping the Unit
Pre-assessment critical
Integrated curriculum should be EXTREMELY hands-on
SLIDE 11: SAMPLE GOALS
SLIDE 12: Sample QUestions
Try to cover different subject areas- Authentic connections to topic and subject areas
SLIDE 13: Creating a Web:
Pull in true measurement ideas
SLIDE 14: KEY POINTS:
Differentiate within the unit - different opportunities and learning experiences
PLANNING:
Assessments:
Align to standards and if possible, what the main classroom teachers are doing
CULMINATIONS:
Be Creative
Share learned knowledge with "stakeholders"
THE KNOX SCHOOL of SANTA BARBARA - K-8 Gifted & Talented School
Study units for around 12 weeks (3 months)
Handes-On Activities
Drives Interest of the student
Integrated Curriculum.. pulls in many subject area topics and concepts
Unit web organized the theme and enrichment activities
Units cycle for 2 years
Initial Lesson Plan Checklist- BEFORE THE UNIT STARTS and layout the Guiding Questions
Workshops are for skill development.. apply those concepts to the unit.
Workshops should not be a worksheet with a simple image at the bottom of the worksheet. Students should apply new knowledge to their unit project activities
Nacri Academy for Gifted Children K-8 Gifted School
2 year rotations
1-2
3-4
5-6
Departmentalize Specialists in each subject areas that teach all levels. Trained in GT education
When looking at structure of curriculum - Take depth and complexity and applying it ot essential understanding and apply to content.
Become a content expert.
How it is implemented
Theory/Structure
Slide 1. Make sure, if students in multi-age classroom, make sure you are vertically aligning curriculum.
Be thinking about evaluation types. Standardized assessments? What does true learner self-assessment look like? WHat are the goals?
DEPTH AND COMPLEXITY
Slide 2:Standards:
Vertical alignment of standards
(Email main presenter (Dr. Ellien Honeck) about aligning ELA literacy and math alignment of standards)
SLIDE 3: ASSUMPTIONS...
Student interest - what knowledge are they coming in with? DOn't reteach it.
What can integrated curriculum CAN do... communicate to parents (that students understand what is being taught at grade level... they need more)
SLIDE 4 ORGANIZATION ELEMENTS:
If they don't walk away understanding pieces, then it was NOT a successful unit.
If you are spending 12 weeks on a topic, do not repeat that in a year.
Focus Questions.... Teacher created vs Student Created
SLIDE 5: Create Essential Questions:
What do student NEED to understand?
SLIDE 6: Sample Questions "Evidence"
In an integrated unit, select 3-5 questions (NOT ALL OF THEM)
These are big picture concept questions
SLIDE 7: Choose a Unit:
Topics that NEED to to taught in grade level
SLIDE 8:Research
Have strong background knowledge in the topic.. not necessarily as expert
Pre-assessment important.. provides opportunities of make sure their understanding is accurate and what to focus on and not need to cover
SLIDE 9: Setting Up the Unit
Social Emotional considerations
Goals need to cover essential understandings
SLIDE 10: Shaping the Unit
Pre-assessment critical
Integrated curriculum should be EXTREMELY hands-on
SLIDE 11: SAMPLE GOALS
SLIDE 12: Sample QUestions
Try to cover different subject areas- Authentic connections to topic and subject areas
SLIDE 13: Creating a Web:
Pull in true measurement ideas
SLIDE 14: KEY POINTS:
Differentiate within the unit - different opportunities and learning experiences
PLANNING:
Assessments:
Align to standards and if possible, what the main classroom teachers are doing
CULMINATIONS:
Be Creative
Share learned knowledge with "stakeholders"
THE KNOX SCHOOL of SANTA BARBARA - K-8 Gifted & Talented School
Study units for around 12 weeks (3 months)
Handes-On Activities
Drives Interest of the student
Integrated Curriculum.. pulls in many subject area topics and concepts
Unit web organized the theme and enrichment activities
Units cycle for 2 years
Initial Lesson Plan Checklist- BEFORE THE UNIT STARTS and layout the Guiding Questions
Workshops are for skill development.. apply those concepts to the unit.
Workshops should not be a worksheet with a simple image at the bottom of the worksheet. Students should apply new knowledge to their unit project activities
Nacri Academy for Gifted Children K-8 Gifted School
2 year rotations
1-2
3-4
5-6
Departmentalize Specialists in each subject areas that teach all levels. Trained in GT education
When looking at structure of curriculum - Take depth and complexity and applying it ot essential understanding and apply to content.
Become a content expert.
How it is implemented